Vulnerability in Php-Nuke

CVE-2008-3573

The CAPTCHA implementation in (1) Pligg 9.9.5 and possibly (2) Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 8.1 provides a critical random number (the ts_random value) within the URL in the SRC attribute of an IMG element, which allows remote attackers to pass the CAPTCHA test via a calculation that combines this value with the current date and the HTTP User-Agent string.

EPSS: 0.019 (78.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Php-nuke — versions 8.1
  • Pligg — versions 9.9.5
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References